text score: Renato Grieco
voice: Mu Ottley
©
released by Second Sleep as part of the compilation Pool Position
featuring Alice Kemp, Renato Grieco, Ottaven, Charmaine Lee, Francesco Cavaliere, Primorje, Rudolf Eb.er, Aniello.

the most intense light experience this voice has ever had

©
basse de viole fantasia 
Napoli 23.01.2025
picture by Antonella Giunta
Palermo 23.12.2024

unlike the snail

ESTATE is the debut AKHET Edizioni issue: an assemblage of unreleased works contributed by the many artists who participated in AKHET’s first year of site-specific programming in Naples historic centre.

The 26-track compilation features Aspec(t), Ausschuss, Cadaver Mike, Canedicoda, CECILIA, Ciro Vitiello, Compsa, D.Ham, Deskulling, Eks, Elisha Morningstar, Elvin Brandhi, Eraclio, Flora Yin-Wong, Forest Factory, Franco Franco, I Jahbar, Koenraad Ecker, las vegan, Le grand K, Lorenzo Abattoir, Luigi Monteanni, MIIIN---AMOR, Nocturnerror, NPLGNN, NZIRIA, Radford Electronics, Rabit, Renato Grieco, Sara Persico, STILL, Talpah, Tarawangsawelas, Tati au Miel, and Yokel, serving as a convergence of dissonant practices and collective gestures. Traversing the volatile terrains of noise, improvised sound, avant-garde folk, experimental rap, and post-club mutations, each piece embodies the tension between transient environments and enduring creative dialogues.

ESTATE, the Italian word for “summer”, concludes AKHET’s first cycle of programming. This cycle, reflecting on the impermanence of seasons, unfolded through three mini-festivals ("Autunno", "Inverno" and "Primavera") and a traveling review ("Caldo Astratto"). In a time when seasons melt into one another and winter feels disturbingly melded, ESTATE serves as a temporal marker, reimagined here amidst shifting climatic and cultural cycles.

Conceived as both artifact and reusable ephemeral, the release materializes as a limited edition of 101 tin cans designed by Canedicoda, each containing a USB microchip and other delicacies, while photographs by Salvatore Pastore document its materiality. The digital artwork by Augusto Fabio Cerqua extends this material dimension into a visual language that resonates with the conceptual and aesthetic framework of the release.

Curated by AKHET.

Mastered by Heba Kadry (Track 1) and Guido Marziale (Tracks 2 to 26).
Design by Canedicoda.
Photography by Salvatore Pastore.
Artwork by Augusto Fabio Cerqua.

Cat. No. AKHT001
© AKHET Edizioni 2025

Le Grand K - Trip9love--->per6volti%

Renato Grieco & Canedicoda - Torcivolto

For Mediterranean Futures, kNN tinkers with a quill that pierces history, getting lost between the springs and the mouth through a subtext grafted in southern Italy. Bespeak the last among the last.

kNN is the moniker of Renato Grieco, composer and musician from Naples, south Italy.
Since 2012 Renato has been performing around the world both as a solo artist and in numerous collaborations as a musician, performer and sound dramaturge. His music is a complex cornucopia that origins from the musique concrète craftsmanship, culminating to orchestrations in which period instruments, imaginary lutherie, and sculptural rooms coexist. Speculative folklore, vocal architecture, and hauntology are the kernel of kNN’s poetics.
https://www.instagram.com/ 	knn 	/
With @knnsounds 


Vernacolaria w/ kNN (13.02.2025)

The piece is meant for live presentation which brings together sound from speakers with projection of text (in blackout). 

All recordings, edits, libretto and mix made in Napoli by Michal Libera.
Instrumental music by Luciano Cilio. 

Lethe is an acousmatic opera comprised of recordings taken exclusively in Napoli. They are inlaid with the music of Luciano Cilio, short-lived local composer. The town itself is the place where opera buffa was born in early 18th century. It favored local dialects over official language, mundane heroes and crimes over gods and myths, real voices over operatic singing. All these features still constitute the vibe of the city which seems to be an opera on its own. Being in Napoli means being surrounded by recitatives and arias or rather by the unique mixture of both. The local dialect with its phrasing and intonation turns everyday public quarrels and calls into music gestures. They point right to the very heart of an opera – a landscape of characters, as Robert Ashley famously put it. 

The conceptual and structural framework of Lethe comes from topography of purgatory. It was often represented as an underwater mountain steming out of the sea straight into paradise. It is no
surprise that the Phlegrean Fields, the land on which the town of Napoli is situated, has long been considered the place of purgatory. According to local beliefs, the latter one is in the least a transitory state. Quite the contrary: the souls of anonymous dead people remain there forever becoming traders with the living. Perhaps this commerce explains why so many of the actual local calls blasted off
into the air remain there, unanswered. Or maybe they are answered but inaudibly.

LETHE. Opera Buffa Acusmatica [Overture]

Sociologist working in sound and music field since 2003, recently involved mostly in producing and staging sound essays and other experimental forms of radio art and opera which brought him to collaborate with Martin Küchen, Pete Simonelli, Ralf Meinz, Komuna// Warszawa, Hilary Jeffery, Apartment House and others; producer of conceptual pop label Populista dedicated to mis- and over- interpretation of music as well as series of reinterpretations of music made in Polish Radio Experimental Studio (Bôłt Records); curator of various concerts, festivals and anti-festivals and music programs for exhibitons; member of art group called „Grupa Budapeszt”.

LETHE. Opera Buffa Acusmatica [Overture]

Michal Libera

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